According to analysis of NALSA data, a majority of the people who are entitled to the free legal aid system see the service as last-ditch option.
About:
Professor Jeet Singh Mann of National Law University, Delhi (NLUD) has released a research report titled ‘Quality of Legal Representation: An Empirical Analysis of Free Legal Aid Services in India’.
His research project was funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Key findings:
In this first-of-its-kind pan-India research he has found that people don’t have faith over the services of legal aid counsel (LAC) under the free legal aid services due to a variety of factors.
Although the services offer by LAC are absolutely free, around 16 % of beneficiaries claimed their LAC often demand money before or after every court hearing.
Majority of judicial officers (52% ) rated the overall skill set of a private legal practitioner as of fairly good quality and that of LAC as of moderately low quality.
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